Talk:Absence seizure

Word "seizure"
Since the word "seizure" refers to a police officer's taking property or the like, some context-setting would help. E.g., "In medicine ..." Michael Hardy 00:41, 18 Nov 2003 (UTC)
 * Absence seizure is exclusively a medical term. Andrea Carter (at your service &#124; my good deeds) 03:25, 16 August 2015 (UTC)

Unhelpful overuse of terminology
This is written at a clinician level. Who is the wikipedian audience? Referring to symptoms by terminology that must further be looked up rather than a plain English explanation with the terminology in parentheses is much easier to use and educates at the same time. Absence of links and contextual descriptions makes for non-useful content. Thanks - normal human signing off — Preceding unsigned comment added by 173.73.0.9 (talk) 00:42, 22 March 2019 (UTC)

Vigabatrin is not an agonist
"In particular, the GABA agonists vigabatrin and tiagabine are used to induce..." vigabatrin is not an agonist. . It is an analog of GABA, but it is not a receptor agonist! Rcosta4540 (talk) 19:26, 13 November 2011 (UTC)

Reasons other than epilepsy
Care to expand on the other causes of these seizures please? Cheers, --Rebroad 16:04, 25 Nov 2004 (UTC)
 * Physical damage can be one: I have petit mal seizures. I was born with about half of my cerebellum missing. I'm not epileptic at all though. HalfShadow 15:51, 5 June 2007 (UTC)
 * In order for seizures to diagnosed as epilepsy they must be unprovoked or reflex. So a seizure occurring right after a stroke/cocaine usage couldn't be diagnosed as epilepsy but a seizure occurring later due to the long-term damage caused by stroke/cocaine could be. Andrea Carter (at your service &#124; my good deeds) 03:25, 16 August 2015 (UTC)

What does the last paragraph in the summary mean?
They sometimes move from one location to another without any purpose. What are they? People experiencing seizures? The location of the seizure? 134.10.22.245 06:49, 12 July 2006 (UTC)


 * The former. I clarified this in the article since the original was, as you pointed out, confusing. --Dpryan 18:46, 19 September 2006 (UTC)

I have had Absent Epilepsy since I was 3.
I have had absent epilepsy since I was 3 and i have found that if it does not go away i may never be able to drive. I have taken some medications too! 207.109.63.169 16:30, 16 November 2007 (UTC)Sam M.

IPA?
A doctor told me that it was not pronounced as English "Absence" but rather as French "Absence", ab-since versus ab-sohnz. Could anyone confirm? 67.5.156.119 (talk) 08:27, 20 May 2008 (UTC)

I've got no official source, but I work as an assistant to an epilepsy specialist and she pronounces it ab-since, for what good it does for you. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 164.111.174.183 (talk) 17:27, 10 June 2008 (UTC)

I'm a med student in the US. All of our professors pronounced it ab-sohnz. Like petit mal, the term was introduced by a French physician (Louis-Florentin Calmeil), which is probably why it is pronounced in the French manner. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 129.98.124.10 (talk) 05:26, 16 September 2009 (UTC)

Readability
In my opinion, I don't believe the average visitor to this page will have any idea what "thalamocortical oscillations" are. An explanation or perhaps a link to an external explanation would be helpful. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 66.214.196.49 (talk) 02:57, 18 July 2008 (UTC)


 * i'm a different writer and I don't use wiki rules because i don't have the time. I also posted a section about the readability issue. If they only use terminology rather than description, this page will continue to be ignored. very little effort is made to address the concerns of casual, normal users who contribute. because they made it about a culture almost as much as a useful tool. bummer! — Preceding unsigned comment added by 173.73.0.9 (talk) 00:44, 22 March 2019 (UTC)

New study
I added a new (Mar 2010) study to the medications section and note that the following section mentions a new "large - more than 400 pts." study is to be done, and it seems that the one I have added actually may be from that "new" study. Does anyone watch over this article? I have no special interest in it and only wanted to add this study that I ran across, but it does need to be updated... Gandydancer (talk) 20:03, 13 March 2010 (UTC)

Syndromes of genetic generalised epilepsies with absence seizures
There's no reference for this sort of classification. Most importantly, I'd like to see a reference for this: These types of seizures are also known to occur to patients suffering with Porphyria, and can be triggered by stress or other Porphrin-inducing factors.

Also, which type of seizures? Absence seizures or the syndromes described above? I'd like to mention that 3 of these syndromes seem to be the same one, namely juvenile myoclonic epilepsy.109.102.32.73 (talk) 10:21, 17 August 2012 (UTC)

Pronunciation
There should be a pronunciation guide as the predominant pronunciation is ab-sonz as it is derived from french,but only if you dont know anything about medicibe (as with petit mal seizers). Nasukaren (talk) 20:19, 11 December 2012 (UTC)

Format of the article
- this article is in need of "wikification" it does not flow very well and is all over the place with too much detail in some areas and not enough in others. There are things that need to be added to this subject but it is difficult to do so in its current format. Heyinternetman (talk) 01:27, 20 February 2014 (UTC)

Use ICD10 as a guide to organizing content
The ICD10 coding provides a suitable context for the merging of particular classifications of the types of seizures, including juvenile. Perhaps this would help to organize this entry?

Entry is too clinical
This entry reads like a medical text or journal article and is too technical for the average Wikipedia user. I think it needs to be rewritten by someone who knows the subject but can tailor that knowledge to fit the needs of people with little or no medical background. It also needs more links. Rissa -- obsessive/compulsive copy editor 20:33, 8 April 2014 (UTC)

Etiology -- garbled sentence
The last sentence in this section,"...factors that trigger...", is garbled—it has three "and"s—and is not supported in the cite (refname "Albuja 2021"). And what does "lack of sleep and compliance" mean? Compliance with sleep? Compliance with medical instructions? General complaisance of character?? I started to copyedit for punctuation and syntax, tried to clarify it, but then realized it was unsupported, so I had no way to be sure of the intended meaning. I commented it out for now so the text would not be lost; it looks significant and appropriate, and is probably supported by some other source(s) cited elsewhere in the article.

Original text,verbatim, is "The factors that trigger an absence seizure are lack of sleep and compliance, drinking alcohol, and benzodiazepine withdrawal, and use of medication that reduces the threshold of seizure such as Isoniazid, antipsychotics.".

I hope someone familiar with the subject and the sources will be able to rescue the commented-out sentence. But:

Noted: Medscape Perceived trigger factors of seizures in persons with epilepsy (not in article) says: "...self perceived [trigger factors] should be interpreted with caution and differentiated from actual [trigger factors]", so caution should be exercised in restoring the original categorical statement asserting trigger factors. This review article or the original paper in journal Seizure might be an OK source for this subsection. D Anthony Patriarche (talk) 07:02, 23 March 2023 (UTC)

Hi!
Hi dear Wikipedians,

I am a student at Uskudar University in Turkiye, and I take the course 'Special Topics in Neuroscience' in the summer school 2023. Editing this article, is my course assignment. So I will be editing this article any help will be welcomed. Ipekdo (talk) 13:51, 22 August 2023 (UTC)

Proposing that Childhood absence epilepsy be merged with this page
I'm not 100% sure that this is the right move, but it seems like it could be, so I thought I would propose this and see what other people thought. As I understand it, CAE is a "generalized syndrome," whereas absence seizures are (naturally) just a type of seizure, one which might lead to a diagnosis of CAE. However, general medical literature on absence seizures seems almost invariably to focus the discussion primarily on CAE, which seems unsurprising since apparently absence seizures largely occur in childhood and CAE is a general diagnosis. I think that might imply that it would be easier to discuss CAE here than on its own page.

I note that Juvenile absence epilepsy already redirects here, even though I get the impression that JAE is a more narrowly-defined and uncommon condition. Also, Childhood absence epilepsy is a pretty sparse page, whereas this page is not only more detailed but also already discusses CAE in several places. I realized that this merge might make sense when I started looking into adding a "Prognosis" section to this page, but what I was coming across looking for info on the progression of absence seizures and patient outcomes seemed to frame the discussion largely in terms of CAE, even when it was about absence seizures in general. That made me feel like I wasn't sure where to add the information I found, a problem that would be resolved if the pages were merged. I looked most thoroughly at this article and this article.

I'm not a doctor—just a passing editor who finds biology and medicine interesting—so it would be great to have input on this from editors who have professional familiarity with absence seizures. I think, if the overlap between the topics of CAE and absence seizures is not truly as strong as I'm getting the impression of, then the merge might not make sense, but otherwise it would help resolve ambiguities about where to put some information on absence seizures. 🍉◜⠢◞ↂ🄜𝚎sₒᶜa𝚛🅟ම𛱘‎🥑《 𔑪‎talk〗⇤ 02:03, 12 November 2023 (UTC)


 * Support. If you account for the overlap/duplicated content, there is not too much information in Childhood absence epilepsy to make it unreasonable to merge here. It would just have to be decided whether the childhood absence epilepsy content are split up and divided among the existing sections in this article, or if there should be a section specifically for childhood absence epilepsy. Kimen8 (talk) 18:40, 23 December 2023 (UTC)
 * Taking a closer look, there really is already section structure that childhood absence epilepsy can be easily merged into. Kimen8 (talk) 18:44, 23 December 2023 (UTC)

Absence seizures are a type of epileptic seizure, and childhood absence epilepsy (CAE) is an independent epilepsy syndrome. Absence seizures can occur in many other types of epilepsy syndromes, but in childhood absence epilepsy, absence seizures are the only type of seizure. The diagnosis of childhood absence epilepsy requires consideration of the age of onset, clinical manifestations, and electroencephalogram (EEG) findings (bilateral, symmetric 3Hz spike-and-wave discharges during seizures). Therefore, it is inappropriate to combine CAE with absence seizures. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 23.142.200.37 (talk) 15:02, 7 June 2024 (UTC)